Minister berth aspirants upset over denial of berths

A section of TDP leaders and aspirants of Cabinet berths are upset over denial of an opportunity to them. The TDP president Nara Chandrababu Naidu who announced a team of ministers on Sunday tried to balance the caste, regional and other equations and in the process he preferred some first times into the cabinet overlooking seniors have become a cause of upset to them.

The hopefuls are Bandaru Satyanarayana Murty, Dhulipala Narendra Kumar, Kagita Venkata Rao, GSS Shivaji, P Narayana Swamy Naidu and G Butchiah Chowdary were among those but their names did not figure. Bandaru Satyanarayana Murty openly expressed his dissatisfaction and even resigned the party's state vice-president post. While the supporters of other leaders staged protests in Guntur and Krishna districts.